Flight

The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Want,told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarchat odds over the settling of her estate–a novel about artgriefshameambitionjoyand the American safety net. It’s December twenty-second and siblings HenryKateand Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry’s house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their motherthe first not at their mother’s Florida house. Over the course of the next three daysold resentments and instabilities arise as the siblingswith a gaggle of children afootattempt to perform familiar ritualswhile also trying to decide what to do with their mother’s housetheir sole inheritance. As tensions risethe whole group is forced to come together unexpectedly when a local mother and daughter need help. With the urgency and artfulness that cemented her previous novel Want as \